Cuckoo’s Eggs

Die Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum

Contemporary works of visual art transform the museum into a distinctive space for viewing and reflection for a limited time. Twenty-five members of the long-established association of artists, based primarily in Bavaria and representing a wide range of artistic positions of the 21st century — from classical sculpture to video art — comment on and subvert the familiar image of the exhibition parcours across several rooms on the main floor. Under the provocative motto “Cuckoo’s Eggs”, contemporary works encounter centuries-old testimonies to human creativity, opening up dialogues charged with tension and resonance.

As enriching creative disruptions, these interventions serve as inspiring pillars for speculative bridges between epochs, their artistic forms and ideas.

The intervention resembles a vibrantly charged study in tension while also offering an original training of our perception: thoughtful, profound or humorous, yet always precise and engaging, it sharpens our awareness of the human condition in both past and present through the lens of art.

Exhibiting artists: Eike Berg, Nicole Frenzel, Anna Frydman, Patricija Gilyte, Baldur Geipel, Esther Glück, Monika Humm, Martin Kargruber, Manfred Mayerle, Elisabeth Mehrl, Daisuke Ogura, Christine Ott, Olaf Probst, Ulrike Prusseit, Maria Rucker, Eva Ruhland, Frauke Sohn, Rose Stach, Thomas Sterna, Kiki Stickl, Cosima Strähhuber, SusanneThiemann, Gottlind Timmermanns, Felix Weinold, Andreas Zingerle
© Susanne Thiemann, Blanche; Gotlind Timmermanns, Hortus Conclusus